CCSE is an interdisciplinary initiative designed to foster new research and education in systems science and engineering and to create innovative solutions to manage complexity. Its primary focus is the development of mathematical and computational models of complex enterprises to guide the decision making of business leaders and policymakers in healthcare delivery, financial systems, sustainable energy and national security.

“We are delighted to have Northern Light as a charter member of CCSE,” Dr. William Rouse, the Alexander Crombie Humphreys Chair of Economics in Engineering at Stevens and the inaugural director of the CCSE, said. “Northern Light’s expertise and technology mesh well with CCSE’s mission to develop powerful tools, technologies and solutions to drive forward strategic policy and management decisions.”

“It is an honor to be closely associated with a prestigious institution like Stevens, and to help advance the innovative work of CCSE,” Northern Light CEO C. David Seuss said.  “Understanding complex systems and issues involves strategic research and analysis of massive repositories of knowledge from many organizations. With Northern Light’s meaning extraction technology, we hope to contribute to the advancement of the mission of the CCSE.”

In the commercial domain, meaning extraction is beginning to be applied by companies to search electronic document repositories and various online resources to dramatically improve and accelerate a researcher’s ability to gain insight into a topic and answer specific research questions, according to Seuss. The technology is incorporated into Northern Light’s SinglePoint™ strategic research portals. SinglePoint portals enable integrated search and automated analysis of a company’s primary and licensed secondary market and technical research, as well as other industry news and information that is valuable for competitive intelligence, strategic planning, product development, and other business functions.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology lives at the intersection of industry, academics and research. The university’s students, faculty and partners leverage their collective real-world experience and culture of innovation, research and entrepreneurship to confront global challenges in engineering, science, systems and technology management. Stevens offers baccalaureate, masters, certificates and doctoral degrees in engineering, the sciences and management, in addition to baccalaureate degrees in business and liberal arts. For more information, visit www.stevens.edu.

About Northern Light

Northern Light has been providing strategic research portals, business research content, and search technology to global enterprises since 1996.  Northern Light’s current clients include Fortune 100 market leaders in information technology, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, energy, financial services, transportation, retailing, and consumer products. Northern Light is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

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BOSTON, Jan. 9, 2013 – Northern Light’s (www.northernlight.com) “meaning extraction” facility for automatically analyzing concepts within research literature is the enabling technology behind a newly published journal paper that assesses 30 years of research into information technology (IT) innovation adoption by enterprises.

The article, entitled “IT Innovation Adoption by Enterprises: Knowledge Discovery through Text Analytics”, is being published in the January 2013 issue of Elsevier’s Decision Support Systems journal; it is available online at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167923612002849. It is the first scholarly investigation of enterprise IT innovation to use automated full-text mining to extract key phrases and information from relevant literature, identify central themes, and apply concept linking.

Northern Light CEO C. David Seuss is one of three co-authors of the paper. The others are Rahul C. Basole, an associate professor at the School of Interactive Computing & Tennenbaum Institute at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta; and William B. Rouse of the School of Systems & Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.

The paper offers an assessment of the current state of enterprise IT adoption research by providing a comprehensive classification and analysis of the scholarly literature.  Some of the findings contained in the article include: “Emerging IT innovations have the potential to radically transform enterprises.  They have been shown to lead to new means of data and information access, transmission and exchange, as well as new organizational structures. Emerging IT innovations may also lead to new administrative IT requirements and responsibilities, such as security policies and enterprise device management.”

In contrast to most previous review studies, which limited their analysis to five to 10-year time spans, the new article provides a comprehensive picture of the scholarly development and trajectory of research over three decades, and therefore identifies important longitudinal trends in enterprise-level IT innovation adoption topics, methods, drivers, inhibitors, and contexts. The use of text mining, in the form of Northern Light’s automated meaning extraction technology, enabled researchers to identify topical relationships and discover research trends in a large set of documents across multiple scholarly domains.

“Traditional literature analyses are often time and resource intensive,” Seuss said. “Text analytics overcomes these challenges by applying automated means to extract and discover knowledge in unstructured data sources. From an analysis perspective, the ability to detect and measure relationships between text strings can be very useful if used to extract meaning rather than to expand search terms.”

Today, meaning extraction is beginning to be applied by companies to search electronic document repositories and various online resources to dramatically improve and accelerate a researcher’s ability to gain insight into a topic and answer specific research questions, according to Seuss. The technology is incorporated into Northern Light’s SinglePoint™ strategic research portals. SinglePoint portals enable integrated search and automated analysis of a company’s primary and licensed secondary market and technical research, as well as other industry news and information that is valuable for competitive intelligence, strategic planning, product development, and other business functions.

About Northern Light

Northern Light has been providing strategic research portals, business research content, and search technology to global enterprises since 1996.  Northern Light’s current clients include Fortune 100 market leaders in information technology, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, energy, financial services, transportation, retailing, and consumer products. Northern Light is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Sheri Larsen
Northern Light Group LLC
(617) 674-2074 ext 6
pr5@northernlight.com

David Domeshek
Domeshek Strategic Communications
(508) 873-7068
domeshek@comcast.net

BOSTON, Nov. 6, 2012 – Northern Light® (www.northernlight.com) today announced it has relocated its corporate headquarters to Boston harbor, at One Constitution Center in the historic Charlestown Navy Yard and adjacent to the USS Constitution, the oldest ship (ca. 1797) still on active duty in the U.S. Navy.

Northern Light’s new office space encompasses about 9,000 square feet, an 80 percent increase compared to its previous headquarters in Cambridge.  Northern Light houses client program managers, marketing, sales, finance, engineering management, network systems and executive leadership at its Boston headquarters.  The new office is less than one mile from the company’s primary datacenter, which also is in Boston.

Earlier this year, Northern Light expanded its engineering resources by 50 percent when it opened a new development center in Bridgetown, Barbados. The company also extended its technology infrastructure beyond its Boston datacenter with the addition of a second datacenter in Charlotte, North Carolina, to support Northern Light’s expanding customer base.  

These moves support continuing growth of Northern Light’s strategic research portal business with Fortune 500 companies.

“The move to our new corporate headquarters in Boston caps a year of significant expansion at Northern Light,” C. David Seuss, Northern Light’s CEO, said. “The growth of our physical space and technology infrastructure is a response to increasing demand for our strategic research portal services from new and existing clients.”

Northern Light provides large enterprises with hosted, custom strategic research portals, under the platform brand name SinglePoint™.  SinglePoint portals enable integrated search and automated analysis of a company’s primary and licensed secondary market and technical research, as well as other industry news and information that is valuable for competitive intelligence, strategic planning, product development, and other business functions.  Northern Light recently launched a second product line, called Northern Light Discovery, a family of hosted, industry-specific research portals.

About Northern Light

Northern Light has been providing strategic research portals, business research content, and search technology to global enterprises since 1996.  Northern Light’s current clients include Fortune 100 market leaders in information technology, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, energy, financial services and insurance, transportation, retailing, and electronics. Northern Light is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Sheri Larsen
Northern Light Group LLC
(617) 674-2074 ext 6
pr5@northernlight.com

David Domeshek
Domeshek Strategic Communications
(508) 873-7068
domeshek@comcast.net

CAMBRIDGE, MA, Sept. 6, 2012 – Northern Light® today announced a visualization extension to MI Analyst™, Northern Light’s automated “meaning extraction” application optimized for business research documents, that enables MI Analyst to instantly depict in visual form findings derived from a full-text analysis of search results.

With MI Analyst’s visualization extension, multi-colored pie charts can illustrate the distribution of competitors, technologies, or business strategies mentioned in results of a search about a company’s activity in a particular market segment. Line graphs show the trend over time of such mentions, highlighting peaks and valleys of their appearances, and enable a researcher to drill down on one or several of the factors contained in the analysis.

“Depicting the results of a full-text analysis of content-rich documents in graphical form can illuminate trends and key findings more quickly and boldly, and accelerate the ‘time-to-insight’ for a researcher,” said C. David Seuss, Northern Light’s CEO.  “It is a natural extension of the powerful text analysis capabilities we have provided to users of our research portals for several years.”

MI Analyst is the only automated “meaning extraction” application designed specifically for market intelligence, business analysis, product research, and market research, to help researchers discover new insights and drill down into the most relevant documents for purposes of their specific inquiry. Northern Light integrates MI Analyst into its SinglePoint™ strategic research portals and its Discovery family of hosted, industry-specific research portals.

About SinglePoint

SinglePoint is the only turnkey enterprise search application that provides centralized search, analysis, and access for diverse sources of internal, external, and licensed market intelligence.  Offered in a secure, hosted, user self-service portal environment, SinglePoint provides a unified search index of all content contained in the portal and the ability to analyze the content from a strategic business perspective.  Web 2.0-style collaboration facilities are also available.  SinglePoint is customized to the precise market research and competitive intelligence purposes of each of Northern Light’s enterprise clients. SinglePoint strategic research portals are used by many of the world’s leading research-driven companies in IT, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, financial services and other industries for competitive intelligence and market research, strategic planning, product development, marketing and sales.

About Northern Light

Northern Light has been providing strategic research portals, business research content, and search technology to global enterprises since 1996.  Northern Light’s clients include Fortune 100 market leaders in information technology, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, energy, financial services and insurance, transportation, retailing, and electronics.   Northern Light is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Sheri Larsen
Northern Light Group LLC
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Domeshek Strategic Communications
(508) 873-7068
domeshek@comcast.net

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CAMBRIDGE, MA, June 13, 2012 – Northern Light® (www.northernlight.com) today announced it has expanded its engineering resources by 50 percent with the opening of a new development center in Bridgetown, Barbados. The company also extended its technology infrastructure beyond its Boston datacenter with the addition of a second datacenter in Charlotte, North Carolina, to support Northern Light’s expanding customer base. The moves support continuing growth of Northern Light’s strategic research portal business with Fortune 500 companies.

Northern Light’s Barbados facility will augment the company’s application development, content integration, and quality assurance activities currently performed at Northern Light’s facilities in Cambridge, Massachusetts and St. Petersburg, Russia.

Northern Light provides large enterprises with hosted, custom strategic research portals, under the platform brand name SinglePoint™. SinglePoint portals enable integrated search and automated analysis of a company’s primary and licensed secondary market and technical research, as well as other industry news and information that is valuable for competitive intelligence, strategic planning, product development, and other business functions. Northern Light recently launched a second product line, called Northern Light Discovery, a family of hosted, industry-specific research portals.

“We are excited to have reached the point in our company’s evolution that these additional resources are needed and practical,” C. David Seuss, Northern Light’s CEO, said. “As a service-based organization built on a foundation of innovative technology, we understand well the importance of being responsive to clients’ needs, and whenever possible, anticipating them. This latest expansion will enable us to do both.”

About Northern Light

Northern Light has been providing strategic research portals, business research content, and search technology to global enterprises since 1996. Northern Light’s current clients include Fortune 100 market leaders in information technology, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, energy, financial services and insurance, transportation, retailing, and electronics. Northern Light is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Sheri Larsen
Northern Light Group LLC
(617) 674-2074 ext 6
pr5@northernlight.com

David Domeshek
Domeshek Strategic Communications
(508) 873-7068
domeshek@comcast.net

CAMBRIDGE, MA, Apr. 5, 2012 – Northern Light® (www.northernlight.com) today announced the launch of Northern Light Discovery for Life Sciences Conference Abstracts.  Discovery’s abstracts provide an abundance of life sciences research, often several years before that information is published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.   Researchers and scientists can search a full-text index of more than 250,000 abstracts and posters from research papers delivered at over 400 industry conferences over the past two years, with new conferences added as the abstracts are posted.   With Discovery’s robust alerting capabilities, researchers can be notified as soon as new conference content is published.

The life sciences Discovery portal is the first of a family of hosted, industry-specific research portals, offering search and automated analysis of valuable content collections to help companies conduct market research, technical research, and competitive intelligence. Because it is an enterprise-class, hosted-offering, the Discovery portal can be implemented within an organization immediately.  Discovery can be licensed with a minimum of 100 seats, or enterprise-wide.

All of the abstracts and posters in the Discovery portal are linked from the search results.   A researcher or scientist can click the link to see the material on the website of the conference organizer and go right to the page the abstract is on – even in a 200-page PDF containing a thousand or more abstracts.

“Access to conference abstracts was requested by our life sciences industry clients, because they realize the information contained in conference papers and posters can be a window into the next significant innovation,” Northern Light CEO C. David Seuss said.  “Using the Discovery portal, the abstracts become even more valuable, because they can be searched collectively and analyzed instantly for key research concepts, accelerating the ‘time to insight’ for a researcher or scientist.”

In addition to conference abstracts and posters, other industry content searchable and accessible through the Discovery portal includes:

• Future Conference Calendar
• Life Sciences News
• Life Sciences Company Radar
• Medline
• PubMedCentral
• ClinicalTrials.gov
• Life Sciences U.S. Patents

Also, Northern Light Discovery for Life Sciences Conference Abstracts contains Northern Light MI Analyst™ text analytics, which automatically analyzes documents found in search results. MI Analyst can analyze documents using industry-specific concepts and concept categories including Drugs, Diseases, Mechanisms of Action, Clinical Trials, and Proteins, as well as general business facets such as Company Names, Business Scenarios, and Strategies.

For organizations that need additional content sets and customization, Northern Light offers its SinglePoint™ Strategic Research Portals.  SinglePoint can be tailored to the look and feel of the client organization; can integrate diverse sources of internal, external, and licensed market intelligence; and can selectively populate or extract information from Microsoft SharePoint sites or other enterprise content repositories.

About Northern Light

Northern Light has been providing strategic research portals, business research content, and search technology to global enterprises since 1996.  Northern Light’s current clients include Fortune 100 market leaders in information technology, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, energy, financial services and insurance, transportation, retailing, and electronics. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Northern Light is a profitable, privately-held company.

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Media Contacts:

Sheri Larsen
Northern Light Group LLC
(617) 674-2074 ext 6
pr5@northernlight.com

David Domeshek
Domeshek Strategic Communications
(508) 873-7068
domeshek@comcast.net

CAMBRIDGE, MA, Sept. 20, 2011 – Northern Light (www.northernlight.com) today announced it has extended its patented “meaning extraction” automated document analysis capability to content and concepts specific to the agribusiness and chemicals industries. In addition, with the release of MI Analyst™ 4.0 – Northern Light’s meaning extraction application designed specifically for market intelligence, business analysis, product research, and market research – Northern Light can mix-and-match “facets”, or concepts, from various industries and business domains, creating a powerful, completely customized research resource for each user organization.

MI Analyst operates within Northern Light’s SinglePoint™ strategic research portal, the only turnkey enterprise search application that provides centralized search, analysis, and access for diverse sources of internal, external, and licensed market intelligence, including a company’s research documents, news, published syndicated research and specialty databases. MI Analyst also contains many facets for the information technology, telecommunications, and pharmaceutical and life sciences industries.

“Meaning extraction represents the future of search, and dramatically accelerates ‘time-to-insight’ for business researchers, which is why we continue to develop and expand it as a capability within SinglePoint,” said C. David Seuss, Northern Light’s CEO.  “Our customers find MI Analyst to be an invaluable aid to researchers, who ultimately must determine whether the relationships, or ‘scenarios’, uncovered by the automated text analysis of search results are significant.”

Meaning extraction imbues a search application with an in-depth understanding of the searched material. MI Analyst identifies meaning-loaded concepts including: business issues, strategic scenarios, companies, venture-funded companies, technologies, markets, job titles, government agencies, identified phrases, and research sources. Among the new facets available in MI Analyst 4.0 are:

• Agribusiness economics
• Agricultural equipment
• Agricultural finance
• Food and human nutrition
• Farms and farming systems
• Plant and animal products
• Seeds
• Agricultural chemicals
• Industrial chemicals

About Northern Light

Northern Light has been providing strategic research portals, business research content, and search technology to global enterprises since 1996.  Northern Light’s current clients include Fortune 100 market leaders in information technology, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, energy, financial services and insurance, transportation, retailing, and electronics. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a development center in St. Petersburg, Russia, Northern Light Group LLC is a profitable, privately-held, self-funded company with more than 50 employees.

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Media Contacts:

Sheri Larsen
Northern Light Group LLC
(617) 674-2074 ext 6
pr5@northernlight.com

David Domeshek
Domeshek Strategic Communications
(508) 873-7068
domeshek@comcast.net